Programme Delivery Manager - Specialist Housing & Care
Homebased - with occasional travel to London/Bradford

About the Role
We're looking for a Programme Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream programmes across a regulated organisation.
This is a senior delivery role responsible for ensuring programmes are well-planned, governed and delivered in a controlled, predictable way within an award-winning not-for-profit Specialist Housing and Care organisation.
You will act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, providing clear insight, managing risk and ensuring delivery is coordinated across Design, Digital, Data, Change Enablement and operational teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex programmes, ensuring clear plans, milestones and critical paths
• Apply consistent PMO standards, maintaining control over scope, sequencing and delivery tolerances
• Provide clear insight to Sponsors and Programme Boards, including risks, trade-offs and decisions
• Establish and run effective governance and reporting, supporting executive decision-making
• Coordinate delivery across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment and dependency management
• Proactively manage programme-level risks, issues and dependencies, escalating early with solutions
• Lead and coach Delivery Managers and workstream leads to maintain strong delivery discipline
• Oversee budgets, forecasts and financial risks, ensuring delivery aligns to outcomes and benefits

What We're Looking For

• Significant experience leading complex, multi-workstream programmes in regulated environments
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches
• Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders and influence decision-making
• Deep understanding of governance, assurance and delivery risk management
• Experience managing large budgets (£1m+) and financial forecasting
• Ability to integrate digital, data, design and change activity into cohesive delivery plans

Desirable:

• Programme certification (e.g. MSP, APM, PRINCE2 Practitioner)
• Agile certification (e.g. Scrum Master, SAFe)

Apply Now
If you're passionate about leading complex programmes and delivering change safely, predictably and at scale, we'd love to hear from you.